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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
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Change is one thing, progress is another.
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The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
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Choose your parents wisely.
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When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know
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Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
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The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.
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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
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The camera is as subjective as we are.
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For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.
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When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
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Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer
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The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
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Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
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